guilty

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The verdict

“guilty” is uncommon German (frequency #55,382 among 5,117 “G” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#55,382
frequency rank, German
5,117
“G” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - an einer (gesetzlichen) Übertretung, Verfehlung oder Ähnlichem die Schuld tragend

Corpus desk

Index DE-guilty · guilty · German

guilty · rank #55,382 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #55,382
  • LEN-LONG 6 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 5,117
  • PHOTO-FINISH grunge

Nearest frequency peer: grunge (-1 rank slots)

Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.

Langschwanz-Ränge nahe „guilty“

Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer

corpus weight

What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „guilty“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for guilty
PropertyValue
Headwordguilty
LanguageGerman
Part of speechAdjective
IPA[…]
Letters6
Frequency rank#55,382
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Langschwanz-Rang von „guilty“ im Deutschen

Von links nach rechts: die wenigen Träger des Alltags, dann der lange Schwanz kaum gebrauchter Formen.guiltyfällt in diesen Seltenheitsbereich:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Die Achse ist logarithmisch: jeder Tick markiert etwa zehnfach geringere Häufigkeit. Seltene Nachbarn derselben Bandbreite: „grunge“ (#55,381), „Grundstruktur“ (#55,380), „gymnasialen“ (#55,384). Unter 5,117 „G“-Lemmata liegt „guilty“ bei #55,382. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

guilty is uncommon German at frequency #55,382 among 5,117 “G” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed […]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.

guilty doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.

No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is guilty, spelled G-U-I-L-T-Y.

Definition

  1. 1
    an einer (gesetzlichen) Übertretung, Verfehlung oder Ähnlichem die Schuld tragend
  2. 2
    sich schuldig fühlen

Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 German corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "guilty"?
"guilty" is spelled G-U-I-L-T-Y. The IPA pronunciation is […].
What does "guilty" mean?
As an adjective, "guilty" means: an einer (gesetzlichen) Übertretung, Verfehlung oder Ähnlichem die Schuld tragend
How do you pronounce "guilty"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "guilty" is […]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "guilty" come from?
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Similar German words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "guilty", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked German headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

grunge#55,381genuin#55,353Holler#55,417Gatter#55,343

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list